Stay Classy
By Mitch Berg
If there’s anyone that an extremist hates worse than their enemies, it’s an apostate.
For example, in all the decades of the battle between Palestinians and Israelis, the most dangerous thing to be remains a moderate Arab.
Likewise, to the American left, there’s no evil worse than any of “their” constituents – blacks, women, latinos, gays – going over to “the enemy”.
Now, there are plenty of conservative women, and they come in for some pretty mind-numbing disgraceful abuse if they rise to any kind of prominence. But it was a partly academic exercise with blacks and Latinos for a long time; there are black, latino and asian conservatives, but not enough to make for a trend.
Now, of course, significant numbers of blacks are joining the Tea Parties. How’s the left taking it?
Oh, how do you think?
“I’ve been told I hate myself. I’ve been called an Uncle Tom. I’ve been told I’m a spook at the door,” said Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support free market principles and limited government.
“Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic Party is for blacks,” he said.
Johnson and other black conservatives say they were drawn to the tea party movement because of what they consider its commonsense fiscal values of controlled spending, less taxes and smaller government. The fact that they’re black—or that most tea partyers are white—should have nothing to do with it, they say.
“You have to be honest and true to yourself. What am I supposed to do, vote Democratic just to be popular? Just to fit in?” asked Clifton Bazar, a 45-year-old New Jersey freelance photographer and conservative blogger.
Opponents have branded the tea party as a group of racists hiding behind economic concerns—and reports that some tea partyers were lobbing racist slurs at black congressmen during last month’s heated health care vote give them ammunition.
The reports were, in every case, lies; the $100,000 Andrew Breitbart offered for proof that anyone had actually lobbed a slur remains pristinely unclaimed.
But the larger point – that the left attacks black conservatives, as well as any of “its” voters, women or latinos, asians and gays – that start thinking for themselves – is more important.
I’ve repeatedly asked liberals to show me a single instance of a conservative woman, black or latino that their movement, and usually they themselves, haven’t tried to destroy. The question remains unanswered.
I don’t think it’s going to change.
April 7th, 2010 at 7:35 am
“I’ve been told I hate myself. I’ve been called an Uncle Tom. I’ve been told I’m a spook at the door,” said Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support free market principles and limited government.
Hmm…since nobody’s come forward with a video of this guy being called those names we can only conclude that it didn’t happen and he’s lying.
April 7th, 2010 at 7:40 am
Hmm…since nobody’s come forward with a video of this guy being called those names we can only conclude that it didn’t happen and he’s lying.
And of course you’ve just called him a liar, thus proving Mitch’s point. As always, we appreciate your willingness to be an object lesson, Tim.
April 7th, 2010 at 9:09 am
And Mr. D burns one over the plate. Tim, whrn did you quit beating your wife (boyfriend, dog, whatever)?
April 7th, 2010 at 9:40 am
And Mr. D burns one over the plate.
Actually, I’d say that one was up and in.
April 7th, 2010 at 9:56 am
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April 7th, 2010 at 10:00 am
When some lefty assnozzle smugly demands that I produce proof that there is any support for conservative principles from ethnic minorities, I tell them I can’t…
….because conservatives do not check for skin color.
Democrats are the most racist group of people in America. Leftist programs have done more to destroy black families than the KKK could ever dream of.
April 7th, 2010 at 10:07 am
Yeah, that explains all the support in the 60’s from the democrats for the civil rights act, and related legislation, while the southern racist democrats left the party to become republicans.
April 7th, 2010 at 10:07 am
Um, Tim, you do know that there is a difference between situations where we KNOW video cameras were running (the Black Caucus allegations), and cases where we’re not sure there were, right?
Understanding of evidence……when will liberals ever clue in?
April 7th, 2010 at 10:08 am
Swiftee….biggest cause of death amongst African-Americans is abortion. Klan Parenthood, doing the job the old KKK never could.
April 7th, 2010 at 10:08 am
Your statement Swiftee would also seem to be contradicted by RNC chair Michael Steele’s comments on his job performance, margin for error, and his race.
April 7th, 2010 at 10:13 am
As to your comments on conservative women, Mitch, I repeat that there are many conservative women whom I admire – and have admired for years.
You never got back to me when I answered your request that I name a few over on AB’s blog. Who I mentioned Elizabeth Dole, and Sandra Day O’Connor.
I think you fail to consider that the highly offensive statements of someone like Ann Coulter create hostility because of their offensiveness, not because she is conservative; ditto women like Palin or Bachmann. Well, in Bachmann’s case it’s more because pretty much every word out of her mouth when fact checked by anybody is untrue…so all that rigorous number manipulation you mentioned admiring is based on faked numbers in the first place……which makes her white board marks a lot less ‘rigorous’…according to independent sources. THAT is why they elicit the response they do – NOT just because they are conservatives.
April 7th, 2010 at 10:33 am
I think you fail to consider that the highly offensive statements of someone like Ann Coulter create hostility because of their offensivenes
Rule # 7.
April 7th, 2010 at 11:20 am
I think you fail to consider that the highly offensive statements of someone like Ann Coulter create hostility because of their offensiveness, not because she is conservative; ditto women like Palin or Bachmann. Well, in Bachmann’s case it’s more because pretty much every word out of her mouth when fact checked by anybody is untrue…so all that rigorous number manipulation you mentioned admiring is based on faked numbers in the first place……which makes her white board marks a lot less ‘rigorous’…according to independent sources. THAT is why they elicit the response they do – NOT just because they are conservatives.
Opinions are not probative, Mrs. Teasdale.
April 7th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Ann Coulter + highly offensive statements = inconvenient truth.
April 7th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Well, in the worldview of Daily Kos and Huffington Post, everything Bachmann says is untrue…….
….on the planet I inhabit, however…..
Regarding Ms. Coulter, I’m sorry, but she can’t hold a candle to the Olbermanns of the world for pure offensiveness, unless (again) your criterion for being offensive is “contrary to the blue sun worldview of Daily Kos.”
April 7th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Dog,
Have you ever read Coulter? Not cherry-picking from MediaMatters, but from a full column penned by Coulter. Or watched one of her appearances in full and with context? Ever?
April 7th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
support in the 60’s from the democrats for the civil rights act
You mean like Senator Byrd?
April 7th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
contradicted by RNC chair Michael Steele’s comments on his job performance
Michael Steele – a man clinging to his job by the skin of his teeth precisely because of his race. Any white guy with this type of performance would have been long gone.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Dog Gone Says: “I think you fail to consider that the highly offensive statements of someone like Ann Coulter create hostility because of their offensiveness, not because she is conservative; ditto women like Palin or Bachmann. Well, in Bachmann’s case it’s more because pretty much every word out of her mouth when fact checked by anybody is untrue…”
DG, Surely you’ll cite specifics on Bachman’s ……untruths.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
DG, Surely you’ll cite specifics on Bachman’s ……untruths
Not as easily as one can document 0B’s.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
You mean like Senator Byrd?
Or Al Gore’s dad the previous Senator Gore.
April 7th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
. . while the southern racist democrats left the party to become republicans.
George Wallace died a Democrat. You are fact-challenged, Dog Gone.
April 7th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Two hours in moderation? You’re killin’ me, Mitch. 😉
April 7th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
,/i>Yeah, that explains all the support in the 60’s from the democrats…
Ah yes…support from the Democrats.
Cabrini Greens.
The Robert Taylor Homes.
The John F. Hylan Houses.
Family legacies of five generations of welfare.
Did you know that 69% of black children are born to single mothers, deegee? In 1960, it was less than 20%…
Yes, indeed; all that good Democrat support at work.
April 7th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
And don’t forget whose side Democrats were on the slavery issue. But that predates the 60’s, so it is all a myth as far as progressives are concerned.
History’s a bitch! As long as we don’t let the bastards rewrite it…
April 7th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Michael Steele – a man clinging to his job by the skin of his teeth precisely because of his race. Any white guy with this type of performance would have been long gone.
I thought conservatives didn’t see skin color. swiftee just said so.
April 7th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
69% of black children are born to single mothers
Those are the ones who survive the eugenics of Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood abbatoir.
April 7th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
It’s more accurate to say that working class whites abandoned the Democrats for the GOP in the late 60’s & 70’s. The racist meme that Dog Gone wants to push is just something libs tell themselves so they feel better about abandoning a deserving demographic that was once the backbone of the Democrat party.
It’s equally true to say that the New Left moved into and took over the Democratic Party after 1968 and drove out the white working class.
David Duke was repudiated by virtually every Republican politician. Bill Ayres and Jeremiah Wright were welcomed into the democratic party with open arms.
April 7th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Hey, Kermit, do you really believe that Planned Parenthood practices eugenics today, or is that just one of your talking points you guys are always claiming the left uses?
After all, like you, Sanger opposed abortion.
April 8th, 2010 at 7:26 am
Except to keep the number of brown people in check.
April 8th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
DJ…
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,” she said, “if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon
Yeah, uh-huh.
April 8th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
“….because conservatives do not check for skin color.”
I agree.
Deegee seems to be quite racist.
April 8th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Ben, what year is that quote from?